An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 6145-01-420-6723
NSN 6150-01-384-3112
NSN 5999-01-140-5752
NSN 6145-00-823-6215
NSN 5935-00-156-6834
NSN 5996-01-281-3234
NSN 5965-01-114-9086
NSN 5930-01-132-5655
NSN 5935-01-303-6863
NSN 5935-00-188-9706
NSN 6105-01-148-8025
NSN 5990-00-281-4164